Danioover9000

@Carl-Richard Agreed. Apparently people who are not religious, don't believe in some god or force, don't go to a church or some social gathering, and be social, tend to suffer a bit more, even develop more health problems. The more strongly a person identifies as an athirst, non-believer, secularist or skeptic, or just say identifies to logic biased roles, the stronger the suffering, it's bizarre.

@Someone here Relief and calm, although depending what I fap to and how, I can also feel more positive or more negative along with the relaxation and calm. On the same day though, if I fap another time, I'd feel more tired and weaker around my throat, chest, balls and phantom pains around my body if I fap too much. Also brain fog for even fapping one time. I go between using porn and/or using imagination, sometimes just stroking without sexual thoughts or images. However, I've been on Nofap and did to about 30 times, most of them were weekly and a few I went past a month, and when I eventually relapsed it's a bit different from when I fapped a day or any other 2-4 days a week. This Nofap challenge I went for 15 days until I had to fap to relieve myself from blue ball like sensations. The first one didn't give relief and made the sensations a bit worse, so I had to take 15-20 minute break before fapping again to clear a bit more out., at this point I only felt a little bit happy relaxed and calm. An hour later I fapped again, which this time I felt I returned to somewhat normal levels of when I felt like if this was a daily fap. The pros outweigh the cons for me here, so it was worth the discipline needed to do Nofap.

What are the main takeaways, in your view, about this situation:

@Someone here 1. Sure, the majority of mankind had dictatorship-like governance, until such a structure hits a limit, the limit being that some Dictators abuse their power too much, and mislead their kingdom or empire and made bad calls, and when mistakes are made it's difficult to hold a dictator to account because he and his group have centralized power onto them. However, I think you've answered your own question in your last paragraph, making this thread null. Wait a minute, just Christianity? Aren't there other religions that were as bad if not worse than Christianity, that caused some empires to fall apart?

@thisintegrated So, there's nothing Netflix could do to penalize Disney or Amazon for copying it's streaming services?

@Carl-Richard That's great! Had my enlightenment in a five day intensive. Didn't last long though.

Is there any feedback on each part of my mission statement, and what's missing or more needed? Also, here are some more of my year end resolutions: To create a book and some stories. To create a piece of art. To create a website. To study personal development. To have a lean, healthy, energized body. To mediate for hours a day. To contemplate an hour, using drawing as part of that. To build deep focus, and concentration skills. To self inquire. To master my sexuality. To be unconditionally loving. To be unconditionally happy. To become a great communicator. To be more social. To be more funny. To draw from observation. To draw from imagination. To draw different genres of manga. To draw in any medium. To wake up at 6:00 am every day, from a sleep state to an excited state, using multiple alarms and shaky body movement to wake me up more, and to sleep at 11:00 pm everyday. To exercise and train 6 times a day, flexing, overcoming isometrics, yielding isometrics, isotonic contraction/extension for my arms and legs, for 3 sets to one rep max. 3 times a week(Monday, Wednesday, Friday or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) of 'tension pulsing' isometrics, and one minute and higher push ups and pull ups, with some cardio on those days like 1-2 min jog or shadow boxing, again for 3 sets of 10 reps, reps here is each max to 80% tension I generate from an isometric position, then back to baseline tension. I had also a goal of losing weight to reach 130 pounds, I weighed 155 pounds 5 years ago, now I'm 128 pounds I want to also go for 15% body fat, gain some muscle mass but really to gain much more strength and speed and to consistently get stronger and faster. To nap either at lunch time, or 5:00 pm everyday, for an hour straight, in order to maximize my recover time mentally and physically To do tai chi, chi gong or self massage and hatha yoga techniques to help me relax much more, for additional R$R. To become great at chess, Chinese Go and to become more intelligent in other areas of life. Please give feedback if there are problems with my mission statement. Thanks.

@thisintegrated Sounds good. If Netflix niches down a bit more, it'll be harder for big companies to keep on copying them. Also, couldn't Netflix have had a protection against this? Like they trademark their services so that if some company tries to copy them and their streaming services they could sue them. Couldn't they have done this, and technically be able to sue Amazon and Disney for making streaming services exactly like them?

@Consept I think those free absolutists just want freedom to say opinions at 100%, but haven't seen far enough that sometimes freedom of speech effects freedom of actions.

I occasionally visit the forum and the blog posts, and come across the latest one that Leo Gura has posted here below: https://www.actualized.org/insights/issues-with-moderating-free-speech and he made a comment under that YouTube video below, to which I began searching for but I couldn't find it: https://youtu.be/4nNk7fvxiGM So, a few questions from me: Did rebel wisdom hide the comment, or was it YouTube's algorithm? I bring up rebel wisdom because even for channel, it's understandable that whoever saw Leo's comment didn't have the wisdom to see it for what it is, but I also bring up YouTube because it's algorithm would pick up on comments that contain negative wording and hide it. Also, what are you're thoughts on online freedom of speech and moderation?

I'd say it depends on the person's value systems, cognitive and moral development, psychology, states of beings/becoming, and life experiences so far, along with genetic makeup. In this case, Elon Musk is hyper logical, because in most of his interviews, he looks left quite a lot, even sometimes turning his head to the left when thinking. This means that Elon's cognitive patterns are hyper logical, rational and I'd say autistic, which filters a person's reality differently than most with are not as left brain active like Elon. He also has an upper class upbringing in South America, which seems to effect his morality about other people. because similarly to Trump's parents, he has absorbed this attitude of competition from his family and inherited their stage blue/mostly stage orange values. I don't know fully his personality traits, but he exhibits introversion quite a lot, which means he has a lot of compartments and mental boxes to categories different parts of reality. Given his life experiences it makes sense why he treats people on the left more differently than the right political spectrum, likewise with employees versus employers. He could also be trolling as well, which given the nature of the internet he has fallen victim to.

I can confidently say that TR and this Mike person, is actually a bit worse that TYT. Crooked Media is a much better YouTube Channel, some of it's podcasters still remain respectful and address the message more than the character of a person, good example for progressives and dems.

@NoSelfSelf To help with my procrastination and laziness, gain more energy and to be more creative than normal. Also more health related as my frequent faps is giving me phantom pains, aching throat, brain fog, some erectile disfunction, and for some reason effects my heart and breathing. Also not my first rodeo with NoFap as this is like number 20 in my attempt, 15 of them I lasted a week, 4 of them a month and the one was about 2 months. Also, to feel a deeper sense of pleasure when I inevitably fap. No fap from normal states of consciousness compares.

@Einsteinonacid And this, is why, the internet is a dangerous place. anyone can post a meme for a laugh, but if you slow down and think about it, the meme hides an underlying negative meaning that ridicules and stereotypes those it targets.

@BuddhistLover Yeah, he has found his life purpose of being a professor and psychologist, and puts the majority of his free time into that career that other parts of his life suffered a bit, like his health. Can turn people off of finding a LP if this is the reaction I'd get from some, if not most people when sharing something meaningful. Yes, in this context it was a political talk about ANTIFA in a right wing podcast, yes this deep wisdom went over TR Mike's head, and initial reaction was I think a nervous/ridiculing laughter, but after that further laughing I 100% disagree with and condemn as they at that point are ridiculing laughs. Not only that, but very bad optics from a left leaning podcast, makes progressives and democrats look real bad. Bad example for others too.

@Chives99 I want to be social, and in most cases I can't, but in some cases I can, but that is hardly enough to make me shoot people. While my life purpose is still murky, I'm heading in the direction of being an artist earning large sums of money from drawings, whatever niche or genres that might look like, so I got no time to waste killing people for nothing. Maybe I'm fortunate enough to have the values, cognitive and moral development, personality type, ego development, experienced states of being and consciousness like the paranormal, and life experiences so far that are specific/general, travelled to new places and met different people, had some weird paranormal experiences, that won't turn me into that kind of person and into that situation. Life is too precious for that to happen, despite it's unclearness, despite maybe my cowardice, and whatever reasons not to. I guess those psychologist's logic doesn't apply to me, I'm too big and different to box into a neat category.

Have any of you felt horniness before?

@Hardkill Alt right and alt left. It might take one to ruin the bunch, but a pair to ruin the world.

@Chives99 Just because a person is socially isolated, or is minimally being social, plus using the internet, doesn't always equal a shooter like this. If you were right, a person who's socially isolated by choice, or is less social and using that time to do online research, studies and hobbies like writing or is doing self help techniques or spiritual practices, would end up just like this shooter using your framing. It ultimately depends on the person, from their value system, cognitive and moral development, personality type, ego development, states of being and life experiences so far. The main issue here, is having little to no sense of life purpose. If this man had a life purpose before looking at 4chan and seeing those white supremacy posts, very likely he wouldn't consider them important because he is already pursuing something that is more meaningful to him. Although the flip side of this is that life purpose is subjective and difficult to teach and outsource to others, it's this that'll sometimes make this slow that a person who doesn't come across some life purpose it could've been too late.

@BuddhistLover Wait, what?

@Happy Lizard Basically, a person who has stage blue values, with traditional and religious morality, with cognitive development that allows for higher abstraction across related topics, whose life experiences regarding the left have mostly been with SJW activists and fringe left types, whose personality partly is attached to being orderly, whose state of being and well being is challenged by declining health, strongly reacting against stage green moral relativism, and those who are too emotional and hate rationality. In a different context, if he have had encountered those at stage green that exhibit it in a healthy way, he might have not this strong resistance to that stage, plus not developed such a nasty health issue, he may have been open to that, but that unfortunately isn't the case anymore.

@Preety_India Your welcome

@Raze His health is related to Leo's SIBO, or it could be some IBS issue or some autoimmune disorder effecting his digestive system, I'm not sure, but also on top of that he also had alcohol addiction. It's a tough health condition to go through as it can also be psychosomatic as well.

@LSD-Rumi Another problem is the language. Saying it's unhinged is too strong, too loaded a word. Truly unhinged is catatonic levels of schizophrenia, or going through a psychosis in an asylum. What this mike should say, is delusional but meaningful, because to Jordan Peterson, this is real. Of course, Mike ain't going to change it because he's biased against those with a hint of opposition againstthe left no matter if it's constructive disagreement or dogmatic criticism.

More of this, and the world would be a little bit better off.